Mariupol mayor says more than 20,000 residents have been killed with most bodies removed; Zelenskiy says Ukraine will need ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ to recover from the war
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Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine.
I’m Samantha Lock and I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments until my colleague, Martin Belam, takes the reins a little later in the day.
